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Chapter 22 - Chapter 22

Lucy, has small horns, big eyes, and a fine look, as goes over her body, with some scales a little yet not that obvious. But after Takeru gave her his necklace, she automatically changed her form into a human. Until now, she suffered from it. Staring at the stars in the middle of the night, doing nothing. She missed her old self. "What's up, girl. How's your new body?" Kazumi said while torching the fire up.

"I hate it," she mumbled. She holds her necklace that wishes she could pull it but it resists. "Why does he hate me?"

"Who?" Kazumi asked. Lucy from hatred suddenly turns pathetic.

"That f**k*** greedy Diablo! I shouldn't rise him back from his death. If I could have conquered this world all by myself, it shouldn't be like this. Now, he exiled me. It's fine by me," then her tears come out and her voice turns sorrowful. "He's not even treated me as his sidekick, but his f**k*** toys, and I am included with those b*tches outside there,"

Kazumi goes next and hugged her from his side while calming her. "Why am I like this? Am I been punished?" she continued blaming herself.

"No, it's better not to say that. Takeru will try to fix this," Kazumi said.

"Why him? Why?!"

"Because you were facing the most important family that the earth needs one, which is Suzuki/Itoh family. They have a role to control the universe, and Takeru is one of them," She didn't say anything after hearing the explanation from Takeru's best friend.

"Why didn't he kill me?"

"I don't know. But as far as I know that he killed not just Diablos but also humans, except someone he cares about or was important to his quest," After that, Lucy's thoughts vanished, just like that. Takeru's straightforward act makes her get relief a bit.

"So, am I important to him?" she asked.

"Well, hard to say," he said. She got curious about his statement.

"Where's Takeru? I wanted to know why," she wanted to find him but Kazumi said that he needs time. "You said I am the important person to him. Maybe I can give him something,"

"Like what?" Kazumi said.

"A thanks?" then she disappeared.

"I wasn't finished yet,"

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Inside the white tent with a red cross logo, all the victim who was involved in the event lately including Osamu, Akira, and Chue Seo-Yoon with two girls from different natives. One girl is from Britain, where Akira and she are unconscious, and the other one is from German. She apologizes to both of them in German because she couldn't save them while she was there. "It's not your fault, miss. You're useful enough for me to save them," he sugarcoats her.

"What is your name, miss?" Chue asked for her name.

"Charlotte," she said.

"What a wonderful name," Osamu praised her. She blushed and grin a little with her cute tiny lips. Her hair was short, dark brown, her height was almost 6 feet tall, almost 160 centimeters her height was. The same goes for the British girl too, instead, she got brunette hair with a ponytail. He was guessing if they were in the same school since their school uniform are the same.

"Anna... Kurosawa..," Chue read the British girl's tag. The girl that he said suddenly awaken but not Akira. She was a blind girl.

"Charlotte?" she said. Charlotte was happy to hear and see her wake again. But I get weird when she said Osamu's name and Seo-Yoon too, but in reality, they didn't meet before. "What's just happened?"

"How do you know our name?" Osamu said.

"I'm...I don't know how," she said. "But, am I able to communicate with your brother?"

"Akira? I hoped so," Osamu asserted. After that, Akira wakes at the last moment. He looked panicked and shocked.

"You barely can see," Akira let out too loud.

"Dude!! Chill down. Tell us what the hell you just state it," Seo-Yoon said.

"She can see even she's blind," he explained while trying to calm himself down.

"Just tell us, why?" Osamu said.

"Do you play Dark Souls III? You might notice it," he said. And when he told Anna to wear some kind of blind mask full of jewels and a big Sapphire in the middle.

"She looks exactly like Fire Keeper!!" Osama shouted.

"Who is that?" Seo-Yoon asked.

"That doesn't matter. The only matter is we need to find Megumin and Aiko," And so, they went to find them except Akira.

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Lucy, however, searched for Takeru for hours. She shouted his name but only echoes were revealed. Then, she heard the grass move. "Who's there?"

A boy raises his hand to sign her that he's harmless. "No harm, Lucy. No harm," the boy said.

"You look familiar. You must've related to Suzuki/Itoh, aren't you?" she said. He nodded, and introduce himself.

"I'm Takashi Suzuki, Megumin's cousin,"

"Nice to meet you, Lucy," she introduced herself as well. "What are your intentions here?"

"I was ordered to find my cousin, as my wife got concerned," he explained.

"Who is your wife?"

"Okay, isn't that privacy abuse?" and she apologizes. "Do you know where is Megumin?"

She nods and points at the place she was. Shockingly, there's a voice with a suffocating tone nearby. In her thoughts that it could be Takeru. "Who's screaming?" Takashi said.

"I don't know. But I can handle this. You just go ahead," she said. He went off with confusion. Suddenly, he stops.

"Lucy, are you a Diablo?" he said. She was stunned with just a question about her. She grins a little and turns to Takashi.

"Isn't that, 'Privacy... Abuse'?" she said. Takeru screams with the pain he suffered. "I have no time to waste. I need to help him,"

Takashi Suzuki stands and stops her. "You are not going anywhere,"

"ARRRGHHH!!!"

"Tell me, Demon, where are the others?" a lady who called herself a leader of a Conspiracy.

"What are you thinking of?! I'm not one of them you bastard!!" Takeru argued.

"Then, you're born as a Diablo, correct?"

"But, I'm an Itoh. How the f**k you think I am?!" Soon, she pulls out her knife and points it in his one eye, "Tell me, where is he?!" She threatened him.

"How should I know. I was trying to find him as well," he said.

"For what?"

"Vengeance," Everybody went speechless, including the Leader herself.

"What do you mean, taking your vengeance?" she asked.

"You shouldn't ask me that question. It's a personal thing," he refused to say it. She can't take it anymore and she stabbed him in his eyes. He got a lot of wounds throughout his body, including his eye, wrist, and partitions of his abdomen. After that, he got no sight anymore, like a blind man. Takeru got a few minutes to spare. So they left him to die slowly.

But, he never gives his soul to the Gods, yet he heard a woman's voice, familiar to his ears, like trying to attack them to save him.

"TAKERU!! HOLD ON!!"

"Rushi...(Lucy)" he called out a name from his lips. A name that means to him most.